Learn more about a time period marked by an intense burst of evolution. 3 min read The Cambrian period, part of the Paleozoic era, produced the most intense burst of evolution ever known.

we’ve created our Evolution Timeline so that the length of each time period in millions of years is scaled to the distance along the path. One metre marks five million years. Starting at the beginning ...

As its name implies, this includes all of geological time prior to the Cambrian period. Hadean Era (4,550-3,850 mya) The Precambrian's oldest era, the Hadean, predates most of the geologic record.

These fossils, dated to approximately 535 million years ago, were found in the early Cambrian Kuanchuanpu biota in southern Shaanxi Province, China. The research, led by Professor Zhang Huaqiao ...